Dear friends and colleagues

As many of you may be aware Elvis Gordon is battling cancer and is in very poor health.

Elvis is one of the best known judoka in GB history and we are asking his fellow competitors, teammates and friends to support this great judoka in his time of need by making a donation to the ‘Elvis Gordon Testimonial Fund’.  The British Judo Trust has donated £1,000 to get the ball rolling and all of the Directors will be making personal donations.

If you would like to contribute please send your cheque payable to the ‘BJA’ for the attention of Donald Steel at Head Office.

You can also contribute via bank transfer to:

Reference:  Elvis

Account Name:  British Judo Trust

Bank:  HSBC

Sort Code:  40-30-24

Account Number:  32536110

Please note there is some urgency to this appeal as we are planning to present one big cheque to Elvis from ‘his many friends in British Judo’ in early January 2011.

Please pass this information to any other judo friends who you feel may wish to contribute.

We have also recently been made aware of a fundraising appeal set up by Neil Adams to support Elvis where he auctionined off one of his treasured gi’s worn in the Olympic Games. 

With the help of Fergus Dullaghan, Co-editor of eDojo.tv, a fundraising page was set up to accept donations using Paypal. The gi went to the person who made the highest donation, which was Phil Hudson of Bishop Challoner Judo Club.

"Even the strongest of warriors still need their team mates and friends to help them out from time to time," said Adams.

Their fundraising page can be found at http://www.edojo.tv/m/fundraiser/view/Neil-Adams-Olympic-Judo-Gi

Please support these efforts!

Kind regards,

Board of Directors